It also borrows the same chunky case silhouette as the other Autavia re-issues that we’ve already seen, measuring 42mm wide and around 17mm thick. Inside beats the Cheap Tag Heuer Replica, an automatic column wheel chronograph with 75 hours of power and a 4Hz beat rate.

Purchases of theTAG Heuer Replicawatch will include a neat book called Inside Track, by Phil Hill – the only American-born race car driver to ever win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship, which he did in 1961.